Memoirs of My Nervous Illness; Translated, Edited, with Introduction, Notes and Discussion by Ida Macalpine, M.D. and Richard A. Hunter, M.D., M.R.C.P., D.P.M.
London: Wm Dawson & Sons Ltd, 1955. First Edition. 8vo, 416pp; black cloth stamped in gilt and blind. The first English-language edition of Schreber's Denkwürdigkeiten eines Nervenkranken, originally published in 1903, a foundational text in the literature of paranoia. Schreber experienced a psychotic break upon being named to a high..... More